Strategic Value Partners to Acquire Revelyst in $1.125 Billion Transaction

Paul, Weiss is advising Strategic Value Partners, LLC (SVP), a global alternative investment firm with approximately $19 billion of assets under management, in the all-cash acquisition by SVP-managed funds of Revelyst for an enterprise value of $1.125 billion. A segment of Vista Outdoor Inc., Revelyst is a collective of world-class maker brands that design and manufacture performance gear and precision technologies. The transaction is expected to close by January 2025, subject to the completion of the sale of Vista's Kinetic Group division to Czechoslovak Group a.s., as well as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Robert Kindler, Benjamin Goodchild and Nickolas Bogdanovich and includes partners Matthew Leist, Jeffrey Marell, Eric Wedel, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, Ben Steadman, Brian Janson, John Kennedy and Patricia Vaz de Almeida and counsel Anya Richter Hodes, Peter Bang, Nathan Mitchell, Jason Tyler and Frances Mi; tax partner Robert Holo and counsel Alyssa Wolpin and Patrick Karsnitz; executive compensation partners Andrea Wahlquist Brown and Jean McLoughlin and counsel Sasha Belinkie, Jake Glazeski and Bruce Goldberger; antitrust partners Richard Pepper, Scott Sher, Annie Herdman and Marta Kelly and counsel Todd Hahn, Yuni Sobel and John Magruder; intellectual property partner Jonathan Ashtor and counsel Brianna van Kan; litigation partners Andre Bouchard, Geoffrey Chepiga, Lewis Clayton, Jeh Johnson, John Carlin and Rush Atkinson and counsel Audrey Paquet and Robert Kravitz; restructuring partners Andrew Rosenberg and Joseph Graham and counsel Claudia Tobler; real estate partner Peter Fisch; and environmental counsel William O'Brien.